April 25 As "Remembrance

Day"

Letter to the Editor APRIL 25. this year, and for the last two or three years, passed without any outward celebrations of the day beyond its being a public holiday.

In previous times the annual commem oration was a big event. The Head of the State attended, supported by the British Consul, leading officials and busi ness men, the general public and the children from the schools of all denomin ations forming a large and representative gathering round the bandstand on the Malae for the purpose of commemorating the deeds of the Anzacs in the First World War.

No doubt the intervening years and the soul-stirring events of the Second World War have pressed those deeds into the further recesses of the mind. But the day should not be allowed to fall into desuetude. The deeds of the Anzacs at

Gallipoli and the great events of the two World Wars, the supreme sacrifice paid by millions in the cause of Liberty, are worthy of remembrance and by a change of name could be celebrated on the 25th of April each year as Remembrance Day.

I am, etc,.

“Atom”

Nukualofa, Tonga.

May 8, 1947.

The SS “Reynella,” which sailed for Rabaul on May 24, carried 36 passengers for New Guinea ports; 27 of the passengers were booked for Rabaul.

Mrs. Lilian M. Evensen, of 31 Francis Street, Geraldton, West Australia, has now been officially advised that it is considered that her husband, Mr. Albert Evensen (imprisoned by the Japs at Pondo, New Britain, in 1942) has been “missing" since May 15, 1944, and it is officially presumed that he is dead. There is little doubt that Mr. Evensen was one of a party of between 10 and 18 men, who were mur dered by the Japs in Rabaul in 1944.

The Distinguished Service Medal, which he won during the war in the Pacific, was recently presented to Mr. W. A. Dobson at a ceremony in Canberra, ACT. Mr.

Dobson later left for Rabaul where he is an engineer in the employ of Colyer, Watson (NG) Ltd.